boundary

[ˈbaʊndri]

Definition:
1. The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something.
2. A line determining the limits of an area.
3. The greatest possible degree of something.

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Use 'boundary' in a sentence:

1. Compared with the long-standing friendship between the two countries, their boundary dispute is only an issue of a temporary and limited nature.
2. The Reindeer and the young hind leaped along beside them, and accompanied them to the boundary of the country.
3. The driveway or the fence between you is not really a cold shoulder but a clear boundary.
4. The two countries are in dispute over the boundaries of their coastal waters.
5. The boundaries between history and storytelling are always being blurred and muddled.
6. Angry feelings warn us that someone is stepping on our toes, crossing a boundary, or violating our trust.
7. The river forms the boundary between my land and his.
8. So, let's talk about boundary tests.
9. The duke perambulated the boundary of his estate.
10. If you hit it really hard and a long way, it goes over the boundary.
11. As game becomes an increasingly important means in teaching, the boundary between study and playing has already been blurred.
12. A river forms the boundary between the two countries.
13. The boundaries are clearly marked off on the map.
14. Neighbours approached their boundaries from opposite sides and made merry together.
15. The two neighbouring countries have at last reached an accommodation on their boundary problem.
16. We crossed the county boundary into Devon.
17. Soon you'll see a winding pathway going up towards the northern boundary of the park, go up there and you'll find it at the top.
18. Is there anything that is beyond the boundary of human knowledge?
19. The representatives of the two countries negotiated the boundary question for several weeks.
20. See this tutorial on boundary matching.
21. Encountering real animals reminds us of the boundary between imagination and reality.
22. The Jinggang Mountains stand where the boundaries of four counties meet.
23. The county boroughs also had many boundary extensions.
24. This change in plankton found in marine deposits is what marks the boundary between the Cretaceous and the Tertiary.
25. The two counties have the canal as their common boundary.
26. In order to minimize the boundary layer effects, the nozzles were made as short as possible.
27. The water table is the underground boundary below which all the cracks and pores are filled with water.
28. The Bow Brook forms the western boundary of the wood.
29. They had found, accidentally, that a rare metal, iridium, suddenly became very abundant exactly at the boundary and then slowly fell away.
30. The boundary of an area of land is a line in people's imagination that separates it from other areas.
31. The boundary between Shanxi and Shaanxi is the Huanghe River.
32. Other reliable evidence suggests that the deposition of the boundary clay could not have taken one million years.
33. It seemed to me that he had transgressed the boundaries of good taste.
34. The plumes apparently originate at great depths, perhaps as deep as the boundary between the core and the mantle, and many have been active for a very long time.
35. They marked the boundaries of the basketball court.
36. The submersible Alvin investigates the Cayman Trough, a transform boundary on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea.
37. Boundary clay layers are used by scientists to determine the rate at which an extinct species declined.
38. They have redrawn the country's boundaries along ethnic lines.
39. The region is extremely unusual geologically, Royden says, because of the very steep slopes at the boundary between the Sichuan Basin to the east and the Tobetan plateau to the west.
40. As in the particle in a box, it is the boundary conditions that force us to quantize the energy.
41. Parents fear they might overstep these invisible boundaries.
42. Airplanes drag along a very thin shield of motionless air known as a boundary layer.
43. Troops have agreed to stay within specific boundaries to avoid confrontations.
44. Three values of nonparallel boundary stress components can be derived from considerations of equilibrium of the plate.
45. These systems are right on the boundary between stable, orderly behavior and the unpredictable world of chaos, as exemplified by turbulence.
46. They marked out the boundaries of our visual universe.
47. Just before the town boundary fork left onto a minor road.
48. The fence marks the boundary between my property and hers.
49. He tends to overstep the boundaries of good taste.
50. Country boundaries are shown on this map as dotted lines.
51. The fence marked the boundary between my property and hers.
52. Our first example of confining waves will be to confine a wave at one boundary.
53. How can volcanic activity occur so far from a plate boundary?
54. Scientists continue to push back the boundaries of human knowledge.
55. Cricket keeps an off-field umpire for boundary calls, and to ascertain whether batsmen are run out and if catches are real.